Playing on a fine, sonorous copy of a 17th-century Ruckers harpsichord, Marcin Świątkiewicz relishes both the flamboyant virtuosity of the fast movements and the delicate sentiment of the Adagios – not so delicate, either, in the florid, Baroque-inspired rhetoric of No 4. He makes colourful use of the instrument’s contrasting manuals and has a subtle sense of rubato, aware that time borrowed should also be repaid.

Rachel Podger and her accompanists enjoy bringing out these pieces’ sense of discovery, of excitement and intense feeling, yet without doing violence to the substance of the music. [...] Podger’s pure tone and expressive bowing are well complemented by Marcin Świątkiewicz's bright, pungent copy of an Italian harpsichord from the early 1600s [...] The organ provides another welcome contrast of colour, not least in the fine solo Gabrieli ricercar […].